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Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!Amid the furor surrounding the WikiLeaks scandal, you'll be forgiven for not remembering that the European Film Awards will be given this coming Saturday, Dec. 4, in Talinn, Estonia. What may also have escaped your notice is that Roman Polanski's new film, "The Ghost Writer," has the highest number of nominations. Roman Polanski -- remember him? He's that really creepy European director who raped and sodomized a 13-year-old girl 33 years ago and remains a fugitive from justice in the United States . (If you want a quick primer on the case, read this excellent summary by my Politics Daily ...
At 76 years old, Roman Polanski is the personification of tragic literary narrative. No Polanski biography is complete without the story arc of Holocaust survivor/Hollywood playboy/heartbroken victim of evil/visionary director/child molester/fugitive. But the storyteller's many-chaptered life turned another page Sunday when Switzerland exercised a 31-year-old-arrest warrant from the Los Angeles county district attorney's office in the far away State of California.The director of "Chinatown" pled guilty in 1977 to having sex with a minor, but a recent documentary argues that he became a ...
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